Biting Tongues - Feverhouse
UK 1984 VHS; Factory/IKON: FACV 105/IKON10 [PAL VHS] [July]
UK 1984 VHS; Factory/IKON: FACV 105/IKON10 [Betamax VHS]
US 1984 VHS; Factory/IKON: FACV 105/IKON10 [PAL NTSC]
US 1984 VHS; Factory/IKON: FACV 105/IKON10 [Betamax NTSC]

55:00 Film

Release date:

July 1984

Credits:

All instruments, tapes and voices: BITING TONGUES
Recorded at Spirit and Bootleg Studios, Manchester, 1983, by DAVE PRINGLE
Produced by DAVE PRINGLE and BITING TONGUES
Published by TWIST AND SHOUT MUSIC
Written by GRAHAM MASSEY, HOWARD WALMSLEY and COLIN SEDDON
FEVERHOUSE; starring GRAHAM MASSEY, JOANNE HILL and PATRICK NYLAND.
Lighting Camera DAVE HORSFIELD
Edited by DAVE HORSFIELD and HOWARD WALMSLEY. Written by KEN HOLLINGS.
Production Manager JACYNTA McMAHON Financial support from NORTH WEST ARTS. Manufactured and distributed by IKON FCL. Directed by HOWARD WALMSLEY
A film by PRESSURE PRODUCTIONS

Synopsis:

Old and out of time, the monstrous architecture of the institution forms a world endlessly growing into corridors, courtyards, fire-escapes and places of worship and discipline.

Moving freely through the building, manipulating his puppets, is an unfeeling intimidating force, a thief who preys upon the inhabitants.

The inmates and their world are completely inseparable.

One inhabitant is a nurse numbed and repressed by a place which, she knows, touches and disfigures everything it contains.

She becomes obsessed with one of the inmates, a lost and blind archivist, impotent amongst his nightmare relics from ancient dead cultures.

In a desperate attempt to form some perfect bond with him she uses the thief as a go-between to lure him into a secret tryst.

Comments:

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